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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
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The great enemy of morality is indifference.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.
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Kindness works simply and perseveringly it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.
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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
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All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
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There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
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Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
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That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.
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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
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Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
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Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.
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